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Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
1,305 wordsTheodore Dreiser was born August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The younger brother of Paul Dresser, a well-known songwriter, Theodore was a famous novelist known for his outstanding American writing of naturalism. He was also a leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Even though a majority of his works were about his life experiences, he also wrote about new so...
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Carrie Drouet Dreiser
788 wordsTheodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young, pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Member also know as Carrie. When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sisters address on a piece of paper. Being only eighteen she was still "full of the illusions of ignorance and youth" (Dreiser, 7). She was both afraid of the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities of the la...
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Theodore Dreiser American Tragedy
541 wordsThere are many aspects of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy that involve the moral decision versus the immoral decision and God. The main theme that Dreiser maintains throughout the novel is Immorality. Each character in the novel possesses one or more characteristics that show that he or she is partially immoral. When combined, all these elements have a strong message, that there is consequence to straying from God's path. Clyde Griffiths is the perfect example of how a person is led from ...
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An American Tragedy And The Futility Of Dream
1,898 wordsAn American Tragedy is an intriguing, frighteningly realistic journey into the mind of a murderer. It is a biography of its era. And, it is also historical fiction. But what makes this novel a classic? While society has changed dramatically since 1925, Dreiser's novel, which shows the futility of "The American Dream" and the tragedies that trying to live it can cause, accurately summarizes social mores of this and any time period. Before Theodore Dreiser was born, his father, a devout German imm...
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An American Tragedy And The Futility Of Dream
1,882 words... ple, when he moves to Kansas, he seems mellower and more meditative. In reality, however, he just does not have the opportunity to screw up his life. Clyde is a stock character until his last days; he is greed. Regardless of the consequences, he wants more -- more money, more social contacts, more sex, and more happiness (the one thing he will never have). His pursuit of the American Dream quickly becomes machine like. In a typical novel, there would have to be a dramatic change for a little...
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Girl Of The Streets Sister Carrie
1,360 wordsThings are not always as they seem. For instance, take Thomas Hardy's Tess of the dUrbervilles: A Pure Woman, Stephen Cranes Maggie: Girl of the Streets, and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. At the surface they appear to be quite different. Tess written in 1871 by a British man by the name of Hardy, Maggie written by an American in 1893, and Carrie being written by an American in 1900. All disparate. Or are they? Hardy, Crane, and Dreiser's writings share an important relationship, the heroine....
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Victorian Era Sister Carrie
1,352 words... after. Angel is hansom and easy on the eye. He gives off a un-sabbatarian aspect due to the fact that he is a dogmatic parsons son (Hardy 181). Claire's character is a direct challenge to religious traditions as he preferred sermons in stones to sermons in churches and chapels (181). Angel and Tess become married even though they both hold secrets from each other. The night of their wedding each take turns in confessing past sins! Angel did not mention it because (He) was afraid of endangeri...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Yellow Wall Paper
1,255 wordsAmerican Literature- Reflections American literature is one of the prominent areas of social sciences that was developed by American writers throughout several centuries. This is not a very ancient literature style but despite that fact it is still very interesting for the reader to read especially if to draw the connection between the pieces of literature and time period when it was written. This is because each time period of the American history had many great people in it and also many outst...
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Sister Carrie Attitude
940 wordsI think it is very difficult to define the exact character of Dreiser? s? Sister Carrie? , and his original intention. I would say, ? as many eyes, so many opinions? , so no wonder there are different approaches and interpretations towards the novel which is influenced not just by the reader? s reading or personal experience, but also by their particular philosophy of life as well as knowledge about the historical background. ? Sister Carrie? can be read as a novel of desire, seduction, or the c...
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E L Doctorow Turn Of The Century
2,612 wordsE. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the Rise of Womens Liberation One of the central themes of E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime is the transformation of the leading female character of the novel from stereotypical repressed Victorian women into liberated and even feminist heroines. Doctorow's choice of the womens movement as a theme is appropriate to the period of his novel, which is set in the decade between l 906 and l 9 l 5. This was an heroic period in the womens movement, and the newspapers and book...
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